Description Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season is the most realistic deer hunting game ever developed. There are vast regions, 9 varieties of deer with over 94 racks, more ways to track game animals, awesome animal AI and a wide variety of weights, ages and migration patterns. You will need all of your senses to locate, track and bag the buck of a lifetime! So put on your blaze orange and let the hunt begin!
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Rating Reviewed by: Woof(Unregistered User)
Review Date September 9, 2003
Overall Rating 4 of 5
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Summary: As I watch the little red dot move upwards (and hopefully towards me), I sit but 40 yards from the ridge, and I notice myself getting nervous... after what seems like forever, I then see the beginnings of a rack of antlers you could only dream of. Don't screw this up. I hope he doesn't run... Just a little closer.. Come on! (I whisper in my living room) Bang! Realism, beauty, peace of mind - and a rifle. I am in hick heaven. And for the hicks, there is enough load time for a couple pulls off of the brewski.
Summary: Well i felt pretty confident buying this game cause i am a hunting game fan and after reading the last review it sounded like they improved the unrealistic feel of Big Game Hunter as far as animals interaction with each other.I don't know what game the last guy was reviewing cause it sure couldn't have been Deer Hunter 2004.He said the Animals hang in groups and call out to each other which is false(They call out but its not to each other and the animals don't interact and travel together,you just hear a call here and there when you start getting close to an animal).Its the same thing as the last Cabelas Hunting game,you start off in the map area and there are 4 game animals per map,if you kill them all you would have to go to another map to have 4 more target animals to hunt.They are only together if one of the animals happens to be walking in the same area as another out of coincidence,they do not hang out in herds or interact with each other or anything like you might be led to believe by the last review of this game.Some things have been improved,graphics of the environment and such is kind of better.The main problem with this hunting game is that my pet peeves from the last one are the only things that haven't been changed.I still prefer Trophy hunter 5 for the PC.The animal AI isn't as good,the graphics aren't as good,but using animal calls and such actually works,and the animals don't run away before you can even get them in scope range,also,the animals can be found just like you see them in nature,sometimes traveling solo,sometimes in packs of three or five (or more if its a species like caribou that tend to hang out in bigger groups).Cabelas hunting games needs a wildlife expert to oversee the making of their games and give input into how these animals realistically travel in nature for them to get the game right.If you buy this game all you are really getting is Cabelas Big Game Hunter with slightly improved graphics,and you just hunt different deer species instead of a variety of animals.That four game animals per map thing has to go.Again i urge the people at cabelas and activision to take a look at trophy hunter 5 and implement the way the animals travel together and yet can still be found solo at times,it makes the game more fun,gives you that real feeling like when you are hunting and you run into like 4 deer sometimes rather than just one and your adrenaline starts to pump cause you have a choice out of a few and can go for the biggest buck.The 4 animals alotted per map is monotanaus and boring,you always know you are just tracking one animal at a time,no suprises here.I would mark this higher if it was their first playstation attempt at a hunting game but because it is nearly the same as the last game and they didn't fix the things that were in serious need of fixing i can't give them very much credit at all.They just took the blueprnts from Big Game Hunter,added some slight improvements and just made the game animals to look for all deer rather than hunting all the different animals.Not very impressed at all with this latest installment.The best shot we have of seeing a great hunting game for playstation 2 is if Sierra decides to make its field and stream endorsed Trophy Hunting series some to the platform.One thing Sierra knows how to do is to make the animals interact with each other realistically and the way you find them in nature,sometimes alone,sometimes in groups,you can find like 10 deer per map because they aren't always solo,sometimes in small packs,it just makes Cabelas 4 animals traveling per map solo feel so boring and so predictable.
Summary: If you loved Cabela's Big Game Hunter for the PS2, you have to check out Deer Hunt 2004. Like sports games, Deer Hunt is the next improvement over the previous year's game, developed by the same studio, Sandgrain from Activison. Looking for a game where you can freely walk around at your leisure over hundreds of miles of natural land, thru morning till night? Of course you have to like to hunt too. But beware, you're not the only one out hunting; watch out for wolves, coyotes and black bear to name a few. One of the best gaming experiences out there. There's so many more good things I could say about this game, but I don't have the time. If you even remotely enjoy the outdoors and would like to have it in a video game for your spare time, look no further, this is the game to get!!!
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